At last! Thanks so much Joy, for your informative report!
btw .....I took five years to post a report from the Brisbane concert 2009, so ......

joyezekiel wrote:However, there didn’t seem to be quite the cohesion and rapport between the other band members that I saw throughout last year. I am thinking particularly of the playful exchanges between Mitch, Alex and Javier, and the flirty stuff with the girls.

Maybe it was different in New Zealand but I can tell you first hand the physical, implied and musical exchanges between all parties were varied and numerous in Australia at each and every one of the eight concerts I went to.

One particularly unique incident I forgot to mention happened at Newcastle (Bimbadgen Winery) prior to the start of Dance Me To The End Of Love. Just before he picked up his violin to play, Alex with a mischevious look on his face, blew Leonard a very long kiss! Leonard wryly acknowledged it I wish I had a video camera or I was quicker with my own camera but it was so unexpected and I was "in the moment"

Be for real. Free yourself to find the real Self ~~ MeHappiness is like learning the violin, the more you practice it the more it comes to you ~~ MeWithout the heart, there can be no understanding between the hand and the mind ~~ Gore Vidal

Joy, thank you for remembering all those details two months later (that's quite a feat!), & for sharing them with us.

joyezekiel wrote:
unlike after the 2010 Las Vegas concerts when I was an emotional wreck thinking I would never see him again.

I remember it well. I don't think I've ever been such a wreck, before or since. I think I was something of an emotional wreck for all of 2009 & 2010 - it was such an intense whirlwind & I was essentially in a constant state of frenzy (as I know many of us were) - but especially for those LV 2010 concerts! I didn't know how I would survive & it would have been devastating if those concerts had really been the last.

Thank goodness they weren't. We are so fortunate that Leonard & the UHTC came back to us in 2012 & 2013, & showered us with even more precious gifts. Leonard & the band were more amazing than ever, during this recent tour, & I truly hope that we will be able to bask in the presence of Leonard Cohen & his beautiful transcendent music again, in the not-too-distant future.

I'm so glad you were able to be there in Auckland, Joy, & thank you again for conjuring your memories (even without notes!), & sharing them here.

Hi
This is probably the recording that has surfaced not so long ago on Dime (recording by Raincoat1). I'll check when I get home...
Recordings from Dime are free to be distributed amongst fans and friends, but in loseless format (FLAC,...). One can always convert these files into mp3 etc... for personal use.

That being said: it's great to have the final concert as an audience recording! We can't thank Raincoat1 enough for his hard work in editing these recordings and making them available (and Raincoat1's partner for sitting through so many Cohen concerts and taping them for us! )

Thought I would put this up for the first time on the anniversary, but today seems more appropriate. RIP Leonard and thank you.

(It's great to see all the tribute uploads this morning, sad of course the reason for them. Now would be a good time for all of us to get our collections of recordings up to date and complete, so please keep them coming.)

Maarten wrote:
We can't thank Raincoat1 enough for his hard work in editing these recordings and making them available (and Raincoat1's partner for sitting through so many Cohen concerts and taping them for us! )

Maarten

I think I know what raincoat1 and his partner would say in reply. Something like "it was tough but someone had to do it ...."

Sadly raincoat's hope of lots of new concerts surfacing generally only produced reseeds. I am sure there must be lots of people out there who have recordings of shows that haven't been covered anywhere yet.

If I want to listen to this would someone be so kind as to tell me how to do it? or is my only choice to go to you tube to listen? Is it possible to download it to my laptop so I can listen at my leisure. I am not sure how to do it.
Thanks
Leslie

For Firefox there is an extension "Download Helper". Install it, then just open the YouTube link. The Download Helper icon will start rotating (right up). Click on it, choose a format and download the whole vid.
Eva